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Louis VIII "le Lion," King of France

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Pedigree

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Louis VIII "le Lion," King of France, son of Philippe II "Auguste," King of France and Isabella of Hainault, was born at Paris, France, 11 September 1187.¹ He died at Montpensier, Auvergne, France, 8 November 1226,¹ and was buried at the Abbey of Saint-Denis, Melun, France.¹

Louis married Blanche of Castile, daughter of Alfonso VIII "el Noble," King of Castile and Eleanor of England, at Pont-Audemer, Normandy, France, 23 May 1200.^1,2,3

Family

Blanche of Castile b. bef. 4 Mar 1188, d. 27 Nov 1252

Children

Philippe¹
Alphonse¹
Jean¹
Jean¹
Alphonse¹
Philippe dit Dagobert¹
Etienne¹
Isabelle¹
daughter¹
Saint Louis IX, King of France+¹ b. 25 Apr 1214, d. 25 Aug 1270
Sir Robert of France "le Vaillant," Knt., Count of Artois+¹ b. 17 Sep 1216, d. 9 Feb 1249/50
Charles of Anjou, King of Jerusalem and Sicily, Count of Anjou+¹ b. Mar 1227, d. 7 Jan 1285

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10 Jul 2019

Citations

[S1947] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (Five vols., Salt Lake City, Utah: s.p., 2013), 3:26 (France 8), further cited as Richardson, Royal Ancestry.
[S248] George Andrews Moriarty, The Plantagenet Ancestry of King Edward III and Queen Philippa (Salt Lake City, Utah: Mormon Pioneer Genealogy Society, 1985), 108, further cited as Moriarty, Plantagenet Ancestry.
[S2062] Szabolcs de Vajay, "From Alfonso VII to Alfonso X: The First Two Centuries of the Burgundian Dynasty in Castile and Leon - A Prosopographical Catalogue in Social Genealogy, 1100-1300," Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, Linday L. Brook, editor (Salt Lake City, Utah: Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1989), 379, further cited as de Vajay, "From Alfonso VII to Alfonso X."